Karun Town

Floating City

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Type

Public Space

Date

2020

Location

Ahvaz, Khuzestan, Iran

Status

Conceptual

City Development Along Rivers

urban natural environments are one of the most important ecological structures of cities that, if planned correctly about metropolitan ecological structures, While creating public and dynamic urban spaces, cause the continuation of natural processes such as the flow of climate and the movement of creatures within cities.
In the meantime, urban routes and rivers, as hidden spaces, are opportunities that have been neglected due to the lack of green and open spaces in cities (especially in the city of Ahvaz), and despite their great potential, they make full use of them do not.
Unfortunately, in most cities of Iran, not enough attention has been paid to this factor, and the area of rivers with high potential for uses appropriate to the adjacent texture has remained unused, and therefore the need to pay attention to the relationship and balance between natural and artificial environment more than It is felt in advance.
According to studies conducted in the riverside area has a very high potential to improve the appearance and urban landscape and also has the ability to create spaces for social interactions.

The impact of rivers on the formation of different urban textures and landscapes over the years

The prototype of the suspended city of Karun is based on a combination of old and new textures of the city built on both sides of the Karun River. These two contexts are among the oldest and latest neighborhoods of the city, which themselves indicate the formation of towns based on the existence of the river.
The texture of the Ameri and Kianpars regions on both sides of the river, with different typologies from each other, has caused a contrast between the texture and the formation of the urban form, which indicates changes in the growth of the city in the river basin.

The development of the city and the reduction of the river width, and the disappearance of some industries

Over the years, these two areas have changed. With structural changes in their typology and urban development, the river has disappeared, and with the disappearance of part of the river and its width, some related industries such as shipping and boating, fishing, markets Local, the agricultural sector (on the outskirts of the city), the disappearance of some rituals and such faint or destroyed by that.

Development of the city and its areas along the river

The combination of these two textures has caused an irregular volume to appear in the specified direction. Form mismatch indicates the variety of two different types from two areas in a city. In addition to connecting the two main points of the west and east of the town, this structure will also be a cultural, recreational, and social place that is in line with the revival of Karun culture and its revitalization.

Arches

These arches are intended for the supervisor to communicate with the water, which can be changed based on the function of each part about its use. This type of arch is due to its connection with the old texture of the region and is part of the city’s history.
The collective space formed in them, except for the physical and physical aspects, is a perceptual and symbolic space that has an inseparable connection with the social and cultural time of society with a systematic and composite nature, and the cultural and social relativity of culture is effective in its perception.
These spaces carry the historical and cultural heritage of the community.